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A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1] [2] [3] or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot.
The November 2024 Guayaquil prison riot occurred on 12 November 2024 at the notoriously overcrowded Litoral Penitentiary/Guayas 1 Prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, killing at least 17 and injuring 15 people in clashes of drug gangs with connections to Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.
Prison riots in North America (2 C, 1 P) O. Prison riots in Oceania (1 C) S. Prison riots in South America (3 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 30 October 2024 ...
Officials in Thailand say a riot at a prison in a northeastern province was set off when inmates plotting to escape spread false rumors that several prisoners were infected with the coronavirus.
However, Makala prison is highly overcrowded, housing between 14,000 and 15,000 inmates. [5] In 2020, it was estimated that more than 90% of the people held at the prison were awaiting trial, [6] and only 6% were actually serving sentences. [7] Jailbreaks are common in the DRC. [5]
Prison riots by country (7 C) G. Prison gang violence (11 P) M. Prison massacres (2 C, 40 P) U. Prison uprisings (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Prison riots"
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